Man, if you have no strong reason to prefer to go to Italy, go to another country. It's probably the country in the EU with the most corrupt politicians. Plus, when the debt crisis explodes, Italy will tubmle down.

He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.'
(Jhana Sutta - Thanissaro Bhikkhu translation)

Lower Mainland; Greater Vancouver Area, British Columbia, Canada eh. Home of Brian Rue, Mountains, the desolate cold, and just a hop skip and a jump to the Birken Forest Monastery out in Kamloops (where I've never been).

A wise man once asked an audience, "why do the ignorant shrug their shoulders?"

No one in the audience knew. They shrugged their shoulders, however the wise man only laughed and shook his head. He didn't explain any further.

Man, if you have no strong reason to prefer to go to Italy, go to another country. It's probably the country in the EU with the most corrupt politicians. Plus, when the debt crisis explodes, Italy will tubmle down.